Three-dimensional organotypic culture: Experimental models of mammalian biology and disease

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 15, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 647-664

  Shamir, Eliah R ^a   Ewald, Andrew J ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOENGINEERING; CELL AGGREGATION; CELL CULTURE; CELL FUNCTION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SUSPENSION; CULTURE TECHNIQUE; CYTOPLASM; EPITHELIUM; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC REGULATION; HUMAN; MAMMALIAN DISEASE; MICROENVIRONMENT; MORPHOGENESIS; NONHUMAN; ORGAN CULTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STEM CELL; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; EPITHELIUM CELL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MAMMAL; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; PHYSIOLOGY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; TUMOR MICROENVIRONMENT;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; CELL CULTURE TECHNIQUES; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLULAR MICROENVIRONMENT; EPITHELIAL CELLS; EPITHELIUM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MAMMALS; MORPHOGENESIS; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84910136913     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm3873     Document Type: Review

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